Corporations cannot FORCE you to buy their products or services. Government, on the other hand, is literally nothing BUT the use of force. Corporations - which are the creation of government - can only stifle competition by using political connections. Are you really unable to understand that simple a concept?
Even better - take all of the power to interfere with everyone's life that politicians have usurped over the years and no one will bother to bribe them. No power, no corruption.
We don't need more laws - we need less government.
How can any entity that has plenty of competitors be considered a monopoly? Do lawyers, especially government lawyers, ever manage to learn the English language?
FWIW, I installed SP3 on my machine the other day without a hitch, and I haven't experienced any problems since then, either. I'm running on an AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2.2 GHz, with 512 Mb RAM.
Naturally speaking, killing an animal is no different than killing a fellow human. If you can prove beyond any doubt that a particular species of animal is sentient, I'm sure the rest of us will be happy to remove them from the menu, otherwise that is a completely nonsensical comment.
If human beings are capable of choosing to not murder each other, why are we not capable of choosing to sustain ourselves without torturing and killing animals? It's called biology; human beings are naturally omnivores. If you don't like it, you'll have to take it up with God or Mother Nature.
Benjamin Franklin is credited with the invention of "daylight savings time", but it he was only making a joke. Unfortunately, politicians aren't too bright, and someone took Dr. Franklin seriously. It's all been downhill from there.
Where's the choice on Firefox for MSN search? Any of the browsers that can be used on Linux - Where's the choice for MSN?
Well I don't know about the other browsers that can be used on Linux, but with Firefox you can add it through the Search Engines page on Mozilla's Add-ons web site.
I completely agree with your point; IE is Microsoft's product, so why would anyone be surprised if they did make their search engine the default?
Why doesn't FireFox include MSN search? Huh? I don't see anyone complaining about that!
I don't like MSN, so to be perfectly honest I never noticed that it isn't in Firefox's line-up. You can add it from their Search Engines page, however.
If you install IE7 on your existing machine, as I did, it automatically detects what you had for the default search engine in IE6 and uses that. I had Google configured as my IE6 search engine, and without doing a single thing had Google as my default search engine in IE7 as well. And if you want to change engines all you have to do is click on the pulldown next to the box and make your choice.
Complicated, ain't it! It's so freaking simple that I'll bet my boss could do it!
From what I read on a Microsoft blog last night, IE7 sets the search engine to MSN only if the installer does not find any pre-existing preference.
As far as I can see, this is a complete non-issue that is being hyped without a good reason. Frankly, I don't know why Google choose to make a big deal out of it, but shame on them for doing so.
For the record, I think IE sucks (6/7 - doesn't matter), and I continue to use Firefox. (I also have Opera 8.5 and 9 Beta both installed, but I don't care for them either.)
Everyone where I work uses IE, because (a) they haven't a clue about other browsers, and would probably be lost if you made them use a different browser, and (b) we use several IE-only web apps. I manage to confuse everyone by using Firefox, since the IE Tab extension lets me access those "IE only" web apps without any problems. Hell, I can even use it for the Microsoft Updates site!;D
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Corporations cannot FORCE you to buy their products or services. Government, on the other hand, is literally nothing BUT the use of force. Corporations - which are the creation of government - can only stifle competition by using political connections. Are you really unable to understand that simple a concept?
Even better - take all of the power to interfere with everyone's life that politicians have usurped over the years and no one will bother to bribe them. No power, no corruption. We don't need more laws - we need less government.
How can any entity that has plenty of competitors be considered a monopoly? Do lawyers, especially government lawyers, ever manage to learn the English language?
FWIW, I installed SP3 on my machine the other day without a hitch, and I haven't experienced any problems since then, either. I'm running on an AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2.2 GHz, with 512 Mb RAM.
I may not like IE8 but my clients will use it and they will require that my pages work ok on ie(6|7|8), firefox and opera.
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Sigh. Ain't that the truth! Customers can be such a pain sometimes.
Benjamin Franklin is credited with the invention of "daylight savings time", but it he was only making a joke. Unfortunately, politicians aren't too bright, and someone took Dr. Franklin seriously. It's all been downhill from there.
Read Time Out of Mind for more info.
If you install IE7 on your existing machine, as I did, it automatically detects what you had for the default search engine in IE6 and uses that. I had Google configured as my IE6 search engine, and without doing a single thing had Google as my default search engine in IE7 as well. And if you want to change engines all you have to do is click on the pulldown next to the box and make your choice.
Complicated, ain't it! It's so freaking simple that I'll bet my boss could do it!
From what I read on a Microsoft blog last night, IE7 sets the search engine to MSN only if the installer does not find any pre-existing preference.
As far as I can see, this is a complete non-issue that is being hyped without a good reason. Frankly, I don't know why Google choose to make a big deal out of it, but shame on them for doing so.
For the record, I think IE sucks (6/7 - doesn't matter), and I continue to use Firefox. (I also have Opera 8.5 and 9 Beta both installed, but I don't care for them either.)
Everyone where I work uses IE, because (a) they haven't a clue about other browsers, and would probably be lost if you made them use a different browser, and (b) we use several IE-only web apps. I manage to confuse everyone by using Firefox, since the IE Tab extension lets me access those "IE only" web apps without any problems. Hell, I can even use it for the Microsoft Updates site! ;D